Fussy’s favorites: The early June 2021 edition

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog from the past two weeks.

Goodbyes 

• The longtime leader of Scholastic has died 

• Oxford's centuries-old history of printing will come to an end

Apologies 

• Elin Hilderbrand apologizes for "tasteless" reference to Anne Frank 

• British historical group acknowledges racist views of Blyton, Kipling

Online drama 

• Twitter bans author Naomi Wolf for spreading medical myths

• Author Jeanette Winterson burns her own books

• What's going on with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi?

Preserving the past

• A Seamus Heaney walking tour will feature the poet's words and inspiration

• British libraries and museums have a chance to save Brontë collection

Author interviews

• Meet Shanna Hatfield 

• Unaired James Baldwin interview survives for forty-plus years 

Celebrations 

• Tsitsi Dangarembga wins the PEN Pinter Prize

• Congrats to the 2021 Pulitzer Prize winners!

• Jason Reynolds wins UK's oldest kids-book prize